<div class="doc-item" id="doc-915"><h2 class="doc-item-name">import<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">import</span> &amp; import-symbols-or-lists)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>import-list =&gt; (package-symbol class-name-symbols*)</p><p>For each name in class-name-symbols, adds a mapping from name to the
  class named by package.name to the current namespace. Use :import in the ns
  macro in preference to calling this directly.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:1843
(defn import
  [&amp; import-symbols-or-lists]
    (let [#^clojure.lang.Namespace ns *ns*]
      (doseq [spec import-symbols-or-lists]
        (if (symbol? spec)
          (let [n (name spec)
                dot (.lastIndexOf n (. clojure.lang.RT (intCast \.)))
                c (symbol (.substring n (inc dot)))]
            (. ns (importClass c (. clojure.lang.RT (classForName (name spec))))))
          (let [pkg (first spec)
                classes (next spec)]
            (doseq [c classes]
              (. ns (importClass c (. clojure.lang.RT (classForName (str pkg &quot;.&quot; c)))))))))))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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